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I wonder how long it will take investors to figure out that Elon's robotaxis (specifically his - as they don't use LIDAR like Waymo does) are never going to work autonomously? #teslatakedown

So, let me get this straight. Trump wants to tax the rich in order to pay for a tax break to the rich. Got it.

It should be pretty clear at this point that Trump has no freaking idea what he is doing with tariffs. Even his economic advisers can't explain what he is doing from day to day - they just make up random justifications for Trumps policy-free chaos.

Oren Cass should have titled this article "Continue freaking out, as none of what I suggest in my article will ever happen." Absolutely delusional. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...

My prediction. The new cost of cellphones due to tariffs will be the tipping point for consumers/voters, not eggs. We will see soon enough.

A little impromptu performance at today's Portland #teslatakedown protest.

Half of TSLA value is based on future of robotaxis. Robotaxis will fail hard the day the first people die in one because the software failed to operate in traffic properly. The other half of TSLA will fail because of #teslatakedown - keep at it!

Per the Independent: "U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one."

I wish people would focus more on the fact that Signal is not available on approved, secure devices/computers. They were conducting war planning on unapproved cell phones and computers. Probably to avoid the Federal Records Act.

Another 500+ #teslatakedown protest in PDX. Looking forward to March 29.

Heard pretty good argument from Ed Price that Elon Musk is the fall guy for Trumps attempt to test maximalist acquisition of power. When it fails in courts, he can just jettison Musk and escape blame.

understand that Trumps exception to tariffs for automakers was domestic political extortion. This man is a gangster, no less than Gotti. Tarrifs are about extorting domestic businesses, not restoring American manufacturing.

Portland #teslatakedown protest today had 500+ people easy. Nobody disrespected existing tesla drivers coming and going. Just killing any future revenues! Fuck Musk and all his businesses.

I'm with Carville for once. I say sit back and let the republican congress, trump, and musk dig their own hole. Let their constituents figure out the consequences without democrats callng out every infraction.

Nothing says cost savings like firing and then immediately re-hiring same people.

I think this pretty much says it all.

Wondering how Bannon is feeling about Musk being effectively a co-president, what with Trump deferring to him on a daily basis?

As much as I worry about Trump admin, I actually worry more about AI agents and steganography. Look it up.

youtube.com/watch?v=VWeb... We need a tune like this for current circumstances. Any bands up for it?

My suggestion regarding messaging at this time. Stay away from calling folks fascists/tyrants. The people we need in our coalition are the ones who dont care about that - they care about comoddity prices. Make signs with eggs, booze, gas on them showing before/after prices....

Great quote from Ezra Klein: "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. ". Reminding myself of that every day.

Populism - the guy at a bar who will not stop babbling pseudo-historical nonsense at you to the point where you buy him a drink so he has to shut up for at least a few seconds...

Deleting my last major social media account - Instagram. I'm checking this out for now, but in general I plan to pay for information from curated sources. Jaron Lanier was right. Click bait, algorithmic free sources, goodbye.